Vampirates
By: Katie-lee Brady

Summary: her feelings get the better of her, and encouraged her to take a course in life based on a promise. But along the way, she finds out the truth of reasoning as well as the truth about herself.

Rate: M

Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon nor do I assume I do. This is merely a random plot I thought of to which I used the Sailor Moon characters. . please don't sue *hands and knees* plsss.

I also do not own the character name of .Hack. I'm just borrowing the name, not character.

Chapter 4: Pleasure and Pain

"Sir…" one of the pirates replied to Endymion's question. Two of the three I had recognized from the tavern, the blonde and the long haired brunette, but the one who was speaking had short brown hair and was much shorter.

"Some things are apparently not going our way for once," the blonde spoke, "these gentlemen are from the port, and are our suppliers," he turned towards Endymion, "our supplies are not here."

Endymion turned to the men, "what is our wait for the supplies?"

"Could be a couple of hours," one of the men spoke, greed was heard in his voice, "but for a generous amount, we could get it here faster," there was a light laugh from him.

I could feel the vibration from Endymion's growl, "You're a greedy merchant! If I could I'd give you something else to encourage you to get my suppliers here faster, but I'm restrained right now, so think yourself lucky this time," he spat. I figured he felt himself restrained due to the fact I was present, but he went on, "I will give you half now, and the rest when my suppliers get here!" his voice was dangerous, and even I was shivering.

It was silent for a few minutes, "good doing business," someone else said and the two merchants were off. Unavoidably, I peered up from looking at the ground and looked at the men as they passed, but it wasn't till they took more steps that they turned to look at me. I saw both of their eyes open wide with lust and greed.

"Shit," I heard Endymion whisper angrily. He pulled me closer to his side, half hiding me from the merchants who were coming back.

"For that girl, we'll double your supplies!" the shortest of the two merchants said. He was short and stubbly. The other was quiet tall and slander.

"She is not negotiable. Nor do I need double of the supplies," he said dangerously low.

"It's a felon to have someone like her here! Little lone your kind!" the taller merchant said.

"A risk I'm willing to take now!" Endymion then looked to the other two men from the tavern, "please escort these gentlemen back to their port, and ensure all supplies are taken!" without even looking back, Endymion started to drag me away from the scene.

The two men had taken the two merchants in a flash and were gone. But the other pirate left, the short brown haired one was starting to walk behind us. "Captain?" he said in a curious, yet nervous tone, "is it safe to have someone like her on this ship?"

Endymion paused and looked at me; thought was written on his features. But as I looked up at him, I saw the gold starting to radiate again from his aura. I wanted to know so badly what made that gold there… but his eyes then narrowed. He turned sharply towards the man, "Do not have such thoughts around me about her!" he growled, his voice was raised, warning him to keep away, "especially when you have a marked maiden inside!" his voice was lower and held power that was giving me more chills.

"Forgive me Captain," he said quickly bowing, "but for certain obvious reasons, I can't help it," he said in a low voice.

Endymion started to walk, "I know," his voice was… sad? Well it sounded sad. But I did not understand what they meant by the whole marked, and spoken for thing going on here. Not once did he let go of me; if anything, the closer we got to the deck of his ship, the tighter he held me. Out of sight, out of mind I think it was, because he kept me behind his back, and he kept to the sides of the ship once onboard.

We weren't greeted, but there was something in the air. Endymion had kept to himself and found a nice corner near the entrance to the hall.

"What are we waiting for?" I whispered; I was so tired that I found myself leaning against his back, "can't you just hide me and come back out here?"

"No," he whispered, "the merchants saw you, they need to be dealt with, and I cannot possibly leave you alone for one second with everyone smelling you in the air. They will sort you out," he then turned his head slightly to see me form out of his eyes, "once everything is taken care of, I shall have everything organized for you."

I didn't say anything. I kept quiet and continued to lean on him, resting my eyes. For some reason once my feet hit the ship's deck, I was bombarded with a massive headache and dizziness.

I was half conscious with everything going on around me, but the other two had come back, and apparently said, "The job was done," probably meaning they took care of the merchants. I couldn't really care less. I just wanted to sleep. But I also remember some of the crew asking him about the smell. I noted I'd have to ask him about that later, but he said something like forgetting about it; my guess he used compulsion of sorts. But I do remember distinctly, him picking me up and taking me somewhere. Obviously I was out of it after that, because the next thing I remembered was waking up in an extremely dark room in a comfortable bed. I still had my splitting headache, but the dizziness didn't appear to be there, but I was thinking, 'just wait till I stand up!' and I was, ha-ha. It took me a bit to realize the position I was in. not only in the bed, but the fact I was now in the hands of the Vampirates, and I was actually owned by their captain; which brings me back to the position I was in, in this bed. For some reason, when Endymion said he would set things up… and during the day/night he was on deck I would be in his cabin, I thought my sleeping quarters would be elsewhere… but there was a solid mescaline figure next to me, and I froze. What if… I felt my lower half and was somewhat relieved to find I was still wearing underwear… as well as the same clothes from Madam Ral. I let a small breath of relief out, and felt the bed move. There was a small laugh, and I turned automatically towards where the sound came from.

I regretted it once I met a pair of midnight blue eyes, "good evening my dear," he smiled as he watched my eyes get larger.

He had a thing about being close… which scared me due to a number of things, but his smile, I growled to myself. I wanted to kiss him, but I also wanted to hit him. "Evening?" I swallowed.

"Yes," he said rather chirpy, "you were out like a light for a few days," he said moving closer to me.

"Umm…" I tried to move back as he advanced on me, "what happened?" I asked, still moving back, "and I have a question…" I gasped as I rolled off the edge, but the pain never came.

"Hmm…?" he said once he grabbed me and pulled me snugly against him, "more questions?"

I tried to pull away from him, but both of his arms were wrapped around me, so it was futile to even try. I looked at him rather than his chest and sighed, "What did you mean by my smell?"

There was a flicker of red in his aura and over his eyes, he looked down at me for a moment and then back to wherever he was staring before, "there are many different smells you radiate," his voice was soft, "the main, stronger ones that are being smelt by the crew is your Estelle sent, your sent of purity, and the scent of being unmarked; you do not share a scent with anyone," there was sad note in his voice somewhere, but it also sounded like he was being distracted.

"What do you mean?" he just confirmed I was an Estelle creature, but what did he mean about my other scents? "What do you know of Estelle? And how is my scent distracting them?"

There was a small groan, "you scent sends off invitations. The Estelle scent sends power off, noting people of your existence and power you yield, but…" there was a pause, "your other scents…they send men crazy! Your strongest scent is that of your purity…" one of his arms around my back loosened and I felt his hand move down my lower back towards my hips, ever so softly he traced a circle over my thigh and left his hand linger there, "for us, our senses are 100 times stronger. It's something one must learn control over, but most of my crew have been pirates their whole life, they have no morals. They do not know how to resist. To them, you are a fresh powerful specimen they would love to have their way with." He looked back at me, "don't get me wrong, it would not only be them, nor do I say that it's just for selfless reasons; sex for us is a power fight." He lowered his head towards mine. In my mind I wanted to kick him, but I wanted to hear him out. This was all new to me. "You surpass most of the men here in power," his lips were at my ears, "but for us men, sex gives us a power over females. A power they lust far more than normal lust when our own power is being suppressed by another. Not only that," he pulled me tighter against his chest, grabbing hold of my thigh and bringing it around him, "you're a virgin my dear," he smirked as he kissed me long and hard on my lips. At this point, I was beyond mortified. My first kiss was with this man. But he drove my headache away; and although he had me in a position with my leg around him… I felt safe, and warm… I wanted him. I liked this. Yes; I did like this, but there was a part of me that still wanted to hit him.

As he broke away I gasped, it was very sudden, but there was an overwhelming feeling being washed over me, "and what does… being a … virgin have to do with anything?" I tried to make it somewhat coherent, but his body was like fire next to mine. I mean, okay… the kiss, the way my body was intertwined with his did not help my thinking become straight, but so far I gathered that I must have some sort of power… and well… some reason me being a virgin was more of a problem than just the fact of others wanting to lust over me due to power struggles. Okay… now I'm confusing myself.

Even after doing that to me, he seemed cool and collected, opposed to me who's mind was buzzing, "It's a power play my dear. Something so precious can be taken away so easily," he raised my head up and started to kiss my throat as his hand moved up from my thigh to my butt. "So easily," he murmured between little kisses.

I swallowed hard. This was a really weird situation for me. My feelings were mixed, and for some reason, I wasn't pushing him off. I actually wanted to know more! I felt so stupid, I didn't know anything. "And what about the other… ones? What do they do?"

There was another groan, his hand, still under my dress, went to my lower back, "your next strongest is that of the fact you're not marked." He looked up taking a huge breath. "Like I said, it drives us crazy. But control is the key," he said more to himself then me.

"And what does that mean? Me not being marked?" my voice was labored. I felt so hot, and my body was beginning to go ridged in participation for what was to come. This whole situation was new to me… okay… I had an IDEA of what was going on… but the feelings… whoa!

He sighed, "Stop," he said in a forceful whisper, "I can't," he said again as he removed himself from me and left the room through a door in a blink of the eye.

It was like a flash; he was gone. I was tangled in the sheets and was left wanting more. I was dizzy again and the headache came bombarding back to me. "Wait…" I managed to slur out as I tried to free myself of the sheets. I had just gotten the sheets off, when I heard a small crash from the other side of the door Endymion had gone through. I sat still atop the bed listening. There was another crash and a pause. It was a rather lengthy pause, but then the door opened and Endymion walked slowly out. He was dressed in black pants and a white open shirt. I just sat there staring at him while he slowly made his way over.

He stopped just three feet from the bed, "It is time I am needed on deck. But I will send down three people later to check on you. They may also help answer any questions you may have," he said slowly in a rather course tone. "They will have the only other key to this cabin, so you do not have to fear, they will not harm you." With that he left me sitting on the bed as he walked out of the cabin, shutting the door and locking it.

My mouth opened in protest, but nothing came… he just left me like that… feeling my defeat; I slumped back onto the bed and lay still; Wondering. Who were they? They? More than one. Who were they? To have his trust to give then a key to his cabin must have meant they were very important or very close to him. But I gave it no serious thought. He said they were trusted, so I would just have to take his word for it.

Getting up from the bed I investigated around the cabin. Endymion had come out of a different door then the one he left through, so I decided to see what laid behind the door. As I opened it, a rather bright light shone through till I opened the door completely. I stood at the doorway with my mouth opened. The room I was previously in had dull lights on, but this room, which I gathered to be the bathroom, due to the toilet and bathing area, was brighter due to the moon shining through the window so brightly. I was compelled to the light since I was walking towards the window; there was something so mesmerizing about it. Even during my days of travelling by myself and I had to camp outside in the forests and caves, I was drawn to the moon. The dizziness was gone and so was my headache… but there was just a warm feeling the moon bought over me every time I became entranced to it.

I do not know how long I was staring at the moon for, but there was a knock at the far cabin door and a squeak of the hinges noting that someone was opening the door. As they walked into the cabin I heard the sounds of three people's footsteps; as well as two feminine voices whispering to each other. Their presence didn't give off any threatening waves, so I returned to staring at the moon.

I heard the three stumble into my room and there was a cough. I tilted my head slightly, never taking my sights away from the moon, "yes?" I asked quietly.

There was a moment of silence before one of them spoke up, "Sorry to disturb you at this hour, but our Captain had asked us to… look after you this evening." Her voice was soft and sounded like a song.

I took my eyes off the moon and turned to face the people. I didn't say anything, but I just looked at them. There was no expression on my face, but I sensed they felt sad for me for some reason.

They were three females. All as pretty as each other, but different I sensed. There was a rather feisty looking raven haired woman with unearthly purple eyes wearing a red dress; a rather dazzling blonde with bright blue eyes wearing an orange dress and a short blue haired woman with blue eyes wearing a blue dress… 'Blue's her colour,' I thought. But they all had the same porcelain skin.

"Sorry if we came at a bad time, but we really must get you ready," the blonde spoke, the same voice from before.

"Get me ready for what?" I asked immediately, my voice became alive with a note of curiosity.

"… Well…" the short blued haired woman started, "we are here to get you ready for dinner…"

"The captain requested you be presence at his side for dinner this night," the raven haired woman finished.

"AND," the blonde started again; "while we do our stuff, we will answer any questions you have!" she smiled wide as she took more steps to me.

I let a sigh out and turned myself fully to get a better look at the girls.

It was at that moment they all suppressed awes. I gave them an odd look inquiring as to why they would be awed by me, but the blonde instantly grabbed me at the arm and smiled at me.

"Oh, and how rude we are!" she began, "I'm Mina," she smiled again, "that's Rei," she pointed to the raven haired woman who humphed, "don't mind her… she's never in a good mood, and that is Ami," she pointed to the small blue woman. She then turned to me blinking, expecting me to say something.

"Umm… well nice to meet you all," I said quietly, "suppose I should introduce myself too huh?" I let a small giggle out.

Mina let a small laugh out, "she is just adorable!" she said more to herself, "but there is no need Serena." She looked me in the eye.

I was pulled back for a moment. "How'd you know?" I asked her.

"We have been told so much about you!" she went on, "and we are so thrilled that Captain has finally got himself a companion this trip!" she smiled as she summoned the other two girls into the bathroom and motioned to the bath.

I watched as the blue girl, Ami, started to run a bath, "what do you mean you've been told so much about me?" I looked at the girl Mina with a raised brow.

They all paused and grasped, staring at me. I felt them all eye each other off as if having a secret conversation, but no words were said, it was an uncomfortable silence.

"Sorry," Ami begun, "we must have been mistaken," she looked at Mina, "we just figured… since Captain talked about you so much… when asking us to look after you…" she stopped, not know what to say next.

"Well anyways, Serena is a pretty name, and so are you" Mina said again.

"But let's get you bathed and clothed so we can make you prettier for dinner," Rei had suggested turning from her spot towards me.

"Umm…" I gulped, "do you all need to be present while I bath… or what?" I asked shyly.

They all laughed and looked at each other. Mina had then grabbed Rei's and Ami's arm and pushed them out the door closing it behind her. "Sorry," she said smiling again, "but who else is going to wash your hair and scrub your back?" she giggled as she come to me arms out trying to grasp my cloths.

I tried to step back but she grabbed me in time and begun to undress me. I was quiet mortified and I felt my cheeks burn red. It took Mina a moment to realise I was embarrassed.

"Oh… sorry," she said pausing, "you've never… been bathed by someone before?" she asked, curiosity and interest was pasted over her face.

I stared at her trying to cover myself best I could, "no," I let a small voice out.

"Whoa!" Mina said wide eyes, "sorry to ask, but what kind of life did you lead?" she continued to undress me and push me into the bath.

I gave up with her, there was no chance in my mood that I was going to be able to bath myself clean, and so I sat there embarrassed as she washed for me. Trying to break the silence I answered her question, "well… when I was four I lost my memory and was adopted into an orphanage. I was there till my tenth birthday when I escaped to look for a friend of mine. Starting my journey I stayed with a woman at a farm for a year. We were attacked my bandits and consequently I was taken with them. For some reason they accepted me as one of them and taught me the ways. I was with them for about two years before I accidently killed the chief," I paused to see if she was still listening, but found her starting at me with wide eyes, interest written all over her face, "anyways, I ran away from them and spent another three years of my life wondering towns by towns in search for my friend. But I was getting tired with no luck or leads to his whereabouts and decided to get normality into my life when I took a job at a tavern as a singer… and well… I was there for no longer than two hours," I ended on a sad funny note.

"Wow," Mina paused, "so that would make you about seventeen, right?"

"I guess."

"And what of this friend?" she nudged me a bit, "who was he?"

I let a small sigh out, "I honestly have no idea. I met him only once when I was younger. I suppose we had an odd connection to each other… but something happened and he was kidnapped and I was left with his mother's locket… and for some reason I had a dying will to rescue and find him."

"That is so sweet," Mina begun to smile wide again as she finished rinsing my hair, "I love your hair…" she paused, "silver is so…" she shook her head, "you mentioned you lost your memory at four? Any idea what happened?"

"Hmm…" I looked at her, "The father who found me said there was a boat crash and I was found amongst the wreckage. He was shocked to see that anyone, little alone a little girl survived," I looked at Mina, her eyes were still wide in interest, "He said my survival was impossible since everything as basically blown to smithereens due to crashing waves, but there I was."

"Lucky," Mina noted at she started to wash my back, "oh hey!" she squealed.

"Hmm..?" I turned my head to face her.

She grabbed at the back of the chain at my neck, "is that the locket he gave you? The boy you're searching for?"

I grabbed the locket in my hand and nodded, "yeah," I turned it around to show her, "it's very beautiful, and I feel bad keeping such a thing," I started, but the look on Mina's face made me pause.

"That's… that's…" she pointed at it. her eyes were wide in fear, slowly getting up from her spot and backing away, "sorry," she staggered, "but I cannot stay with such a girl!" she then ran from the room and there was a rushed noise in the other room along with a slam. I sat there puzzled.

"Was it the locket?" I asked out loud, "or was it me?" I sat in the bath a bit longer before getting up and grabbing for a towel. I had seen Rei put some clothing on the bench, so I dried off and put them on. Oddly I felt different. The dress was an elegant black dress with thin straps and a rather fitting body that was free around the hips and fell to the floor. It was unusually soft to my skin and for once… well… I felt special. Like I was someone else. My hair was still wet and a towel could only pull so much water out. But I let it fall to my back as I entered the next room.

There was a box like case on the ground as well as other material things scattered around the place. None of which I knew anything about, so I fell to the bed, sitting there thinking.

The look the girl had on her face when she saw the pendent was rather frightening and well… confusing. And she felt hurt with her words; 'I cannot stay with such a girl!' was it because of my past? I mean… was it because I was not used to this stylish expensive life style? I saw a tear hit my thigh and dissolve into the dresses material. There was another tear and another. I had no control over my emotions. The tears just came cascading down my face. I let myself fall to the pillow and I sobbed my heart out. Was I really that bad? I picked my locked up from my chest and looked at it. Quickly stuffing it back into my dress top I tried my best to calm myself down from crying.

There was no other explanation. I was different from them all, and no matter how hard she tried to accept me… she ran away from me. I don't know how long my thinking went on, but before I could think anymore, I totally fell asleep, but I awoke to an argument.